carpet dyeing

mr_andyj wrote:
hard to imagine how someone quoted $7,000 to replace a few hundred bucks of carpet. Did they think it would take them a couple of weeks of labor? Seems like a carpet installer could knock that out in an hour or so.
There are a lot of people in this country that work full-time for months just to get $7,000 in their pockets after taxes...
I may be in the wrong line of work if carpet installers can make $7,000 per hour. Where do I sign up?

That quote came from the factory service cemter

Nice work and a great idea. One advantage I can think of is you can always touch it up as needed in a year or few years as needed

My experience with trying to dye anything is the bleeding long after the job is done. First spill or when it gets wet will be a test.

Looks great! It's hard to fully "de-carpet" when you have flaps like that around the slide areas.

FWIW, it's not a 1-hr job to replace that carpet. Carpeting is installed before any cabinets or walls, so that carpet runs underneath everything. The cheap way to do it is cut it with a razor knife and butt the new stuff up against it, but almost impossible to do with that flap you show in the pic. The right way to do it is to remove all the furniture, which is why you got a quote of $7K.

Super_Dave wrote:
My experience with trying to dye anything is the bleeding long after the job is done. First spill or when it gets wet will be a test.

Had some concerns as well. So far they have not manifested. Rubbed my hands in the carpet wet and zero bleed. This is not the end all solution, but it has been successful for what I intended. I like the color, it looks great in coach, and it was less work than ripping it out

BurbMan wrote:
Looks great! It's hard to fully "de-carpet" when you have flaps like that around the slide areas.

FWIW, it's not a 1-hr job to replace that carpet. Carpeting is installed before any cabinets or walls, so that carpet runs underneath everything. The cheap way to do it is cut it with a razor knife and butt the new stuff up against it, but almost impossible to do with that flap you show in the pic. The right way to do it is to remove all the furniture, which is why you got a quote of $7K.

Makes sense. I didn’t think I was being scammed at that price, only that it wasn’t a priority at that price. If this had not worked we would have evaluated a plan B. I am pleased with this result.

Agree 100% and it looks like it came out nice! We did 100% carpet delete on our TC rebuild, it was past dying (dye-ing?) it was already dead LOL!